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Gozo is in fine form today, well worth having a go at this one if you have not already done so.

Gozo is something of a specialist in filling the grid, and this time every solution is the name of a county, town or county – quite impresive. I managed to get all but two of the solutions (Jena and Asmara) without the aid of Wikipedia, so I was feeling quite smug by the finish. For the more obscure solutions Gozo gave us additional help in the clues which was nice. Those solvers form outside the UK/Europe may have had a harder time.

Hold mouse over clue number to see clue, click any of the geographical locations to find out more.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 20th, 2011 at 11:15 am and is filed under FT.
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Agreed, this was very good, did need to look for some on the Internet, mainly to confirm a suspicion that I was on the right track. Very impressive to fit them all in a standard grid, without apparent strain. Thanks, Gozo and PeeDee.

An excellent geography lesson of a cryptic thanks Gozo. All the other available cryptics today being on the easy side, it was nice to have this challenge to keep me occupied a little longer. Thanks to PeeDee too.

Now I have my printer up and running it was nice to to yesterdays Indy and todays FT. Nice one Gozo.

I have a question regarding setters: I know a few have passed in the last couple of years, but where is HIGHLANDER a FT setter and MOODIM too? I always liked both of them, and unless they have passed, they seem to have disappeared off the face of the earth.

Thanks for your blog, PeeDee. I saw your first line – “well worth having a go at this one if you have not already done so” whilst on the train home at 6 o’clock, so took your advice and printed it off when I got home.
Quite a delight – thanks to both PeeDee and Gozo. This was a delight for me for two reasons. First because this is much more enjoyable then the last two days in the FT, and second because I love place name cryptics having written many myself, usually published in the form of quizzes to raise money for MacMillan Cancer Care. It’s great to see so many place names that I’ve never clued before in this crossword, and Gozo has been brave in making a couple of his clues more difficult than I would ever dare to.

Pee Dee, when I read “Gozo is in fine form today, well worth having a go at this one if you have not already done so”, I was indeed tempted to do this crossword this afternoon (after deciding earlier today nót to do it).

It was a rewarding puzzle.
To be honest, I needed an atlas in several places.
[for the younger solvers: an atlas is a kind of book with maps of the countries of the world … :)]

The extra ‘car’ bit in GRANADA (8d) held me up for a while because I thought it was part of the construction (which it wasn’t).
The blog explained the DO part of 10ac to me – forgot about do = ditto = the same.
Funny – as one from Holland – to see FLUSHING as a Dutch port.
I only knew it as Vlissingen.